This book describes straightforward techniques for printed & multimedia textual information retrieval that have been solidly established through extensive testing and are easy to apply. They are useful for many different types of text material, are viable for very large files, and gave the advantage that they do not require special skills or training for searching, but are easy for end users. The text retrieval methods described in this book have a sound theoretical basis, are well established by extensive testing, and the ideas involved are now implemented in some physically working...

In the field of comparative research and medical analysis, these methods are of immense value in image registration procedures not just for thoracic CT images, but for all varieties of medical images in multiple modalities, and also in establishing a mean respiration motion model.